{"product_id":"femicide-the-politics-of-woman-killing-jill-radford-1992-1st-edition-hardcover","title":"Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing Jill Radford  1992 1st Edition Hardcover","description":"\u003ch1 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h3 mui-1v2s94n\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFemicide : the politics of woman killing, by Jill Radford, Diana E. H. Russell.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNEW YORK: \u003cspan itemprop=\"publisher\"\u003eTWAYNE PPUBLISHERS,\u003c\/span\u003e 1992. \u003cspan itemprop=\"bookEdition\"\u003eFirst Edition.\u003c\/span\u003e Hardcover; First Printing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"description\"\u003eB\u0026amp;W Photographs; Small 4to ; 379  pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"MuiBox-root mui-0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"MuiBox-root mui-0\"\u003e\u003clabel id=\"summary-25367570\" class=\"tss-vw3yg-label\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eSummary:\u003c\/label\u003e\u003cspan aria-labelledby=\"summary-25367570\"\u003e\"'There's\u003cbr\u003e no place like home.' This familiar phrase invokes the image of an \u003cbr\u003eideal: home as safe haven and shelter from the world. For women who have\u003cbr\u003e been victims of femicide - misogynist killing by men - these simple \u003cbr\u003ewords take on a disturbing new meaning. There is indeed no place like \u003cbr\u003ehome for a woman who has died at the hands of a man, because it is there\u003cbr\u003e that she was least safe from harm. The threat of violent death for a \u003cbr\u003ewoman is in fact greatest in her own home. And her killer is likely no \u003cbr\u003estranger, no masked psychopath, but someone who knew her intimately, a \u003cbr\u003ecompanion or former companion, a husband or lover. In Femicide: The \u003cbr\u003ePolitics of Woman Killing editors Jill Radford and Diana E.H. Russell \u003cbr\u003ehave compiled more than 40 articles and essays that document and \u003cbr\u003edescribe such terrible truths about the phenomenon of femicide. The \u003cbr\u003ehearings for Clarence Thomas's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court and \u003cbr\u003ethe trials of William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson put the issues of \u003cbr\u003esexual harassment and date rape on the mainstream map. But femicide, the\u003cbr\u003e most violent form of sexist behavior, has yet to be widely acknowledged\u003cbr\u003e and recognized as a brutal expression of hatred for women. A woman \u003cbr\u003ekilled in her home by her former husband, a woman killed by a serial \u003cbr\u003emurderer such as Great Britain's Yorkshire Ripper or Los Angeles' \u003cbr\u003eHillside Strangler, a woman killed by a mass murderer such as Marc \u003cbr\u003eLépine, who in 1989 shot to death 14 female students at the University \u003cbr\u003eof Montreal, are all to some degree victims of misogyny and a \u003cbr\u003edestructive desire for power, argue Radford and Russell. But these \u003cbr\u003emotivations for such violence are rarely acknowledged. The murderer's \u003cbr\u003ebehavior is usually viewed as aberrant and unexplainable; he is a \u003cbr\u003e'beast' or an 'animal,' not a man who has committed an act of sexual \u003cbr\u003eviolence. If lynching has become synonymous with racism, pogrom \u003cbr\u003esynonymous with anti-Semitism, why has it been so difficult to establish\u003cbr\u003e the connection between femicide and sexism?The connection is made \u003cbr\u003erepeatedly in Femicide. Contributors address the deaths of the thousands\u003cbr\u003e of women in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England burned as \u003cbr\u003ewitches; female infanticide and suttee, or death by fire, in India; and \u003cbr\u003ethe slaying of Asian-American, African-American, and American-Indian \u003cbr\u003ewomen in the United States. No respecter of race, ethnicity, or social \u003cbr\u003eclass, femicide occurs across countries, continents, and cultures. The \u003cbr\u003ekilling of minority women is examined by several writers, who attribute \u003cbr\u003etheir deaths to the compound effects of racist and sexist violence. \u003cbr\u003eFemicide also assesses the culpability of the media and the judicial \u003cbr\u003esystem in putting the character of the victim, rather than the act of \u003cbr\u003ethe murderer, on trial. Both the courts and the press, Radford and \u003cbr\u003eRussell say, help perpetuate the notion that the female victim is \u003cbr\u003eresponsible for the crime committed against her. Mass market films and \u003cbr\u003epornography are likewise held accountable for their role in the selling \u003cbr\u003eand glamorizing of sexual violence. A testimony to the existence of \u003cbr\u003efemicide, this volume is as much an act of resistance. Numerous \u003cbr\u003econtributors chronicle the efforts of women working singly and in unison\u003cbr\u003e to reveal the pervasiveness of this ultimate form of sexual violence, \u003cbr\u003eto reach out to the friends and families of its victims, and to fight \u003cbr\u003eback against it\"--Unedited summary from book jacket\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch1 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h3 mui-1v2s94n\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003cbr\u003eListed with ExportYourStore.com","brand":"JULIAN'S BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48802784772327,"sku":"276360135096_5183","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/0333\/0791\/files\/57_83c2ca75-d6aa-400c-8779-cec4032ce50a.jpg?v=1738330040","url":"https:\/\/rare-book-dealers.com\/products\/femicide-the-politics-of-woman-killing-jill-radford-1992-1st-edition-hardcover","provider":"JULIAN'S BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}